With the onset of monsoon, birds have been returning to the city airport in large numbers, increasing the risk of bird-hits. In second half of June, Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that in association with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation,

Ahead of bypolls in Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a series of announcements on Sunday, including an engineering college named after former president APJ Abdul Kalam in tribal-dominated Jhabua district

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), a specialized force in the world for disaster management, would be working with the state government to form a similar force that would work at the state level.

In a first, hundreds of women, including victims of Naxalite violence, have snubbed the rebels publicly and taken out a rally opposing their 'Martyrs Week' in Chhattisgarh's worst insurgency-hit Sukma district.

With the onset of monsoon, birds have been returning to the city airport in large numbers, increasing the risk of bird-hits. In second half of June, Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that in association with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation,

Ahead of bypolls in Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a series of announcements on Sunday, including an engineering college named after former president APJ Abdul Kalam in tribal-dominated Jhabua district

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), a specialized force in the world for disaster management, would be working with the state government to form a similar force that would work at the state level.

In a first, hundreds of women, including victims of Naxalite violence, have snubbed the rebels publicly and taken out a rally opposing their 'Martyrs Week' in Chhattisgarh's worst insurgency-hit Sukma district.

With the onset of monsoon, birds have been returning to the city airport in large numbers, increasing the risk of bird-hits. In second half of June, Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that in association with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation,

Ahead of bypolls in Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a series of announcements on Sunday, including an engineering college named after former president APJ Abdul Kalam in tribal-dominated Jhabua district

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), a specialized force in the world for disaster management, would be working with the state government to form a similar force that would work at the state level.

With the onset of monsoon, birds have been returning to the city airport in large numbers, increasing the risk of bird-hits. In second half of June, Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that in association with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation,

Ahead of bypolls in Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a series of announcements on Sunday, including an engineering college named after former president APJ Abdul Kalam in tribal-dominated Jhabua district

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), a specialized force in the world for disaster management, would be working with the state government to form a similar force that would work at the state level.

With the onset of monsoon, birds have been returning to the city airport in large numbers, increasing the risk of bird-hits. In second half of June, Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that in association with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation,

Ahead of bypolls in Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a series of announcements on Sunday, including an engineering college named after former president APJ Abdul Kalam in tribal-dominated Jhabua district

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), a specialized force in the world for disaster management, would be working with the state government to form a similar force that would work at the state level.

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A rare laparascopic surgery was successfully performed on a two-year-old girl with kidney problem at the MITR hospital in Kharghar.

​A J Hospital and Research Centre, in its endeavor to create awareness among the general public regarding kidney diseases, is conducting a camp for kidney related diseases at the hospital from March 16-21.

Health minister Dr Deepak Sawant said the government was considering including the expenditure for kidney transplant in the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Yojana.

Kannada film actress Radhika Pandit will launch "Share a Life, Save a Life," an awareness campaign to create awareness about organ donation as part of the World Kidney Day at Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru on March 11.

The JAC also demanded that the government upgrade Primary Healthcare Centres and hospitals such as King George Hospital so that patients can avoid going to private hospitals for major surgeries. ET NOW turns 5. Watch No1 Biz News Channel of India for unbiased coverage of Markets and Economy.

JAC member J T Rama Rao also accused the elected representatives and ministers from the region of failing to take up the issue seriously. He said that members of the JAC would meet chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy urging them to act against those involved in the kidney racket. ET NOW turns 5. Watch No1 Biz News Channel of India for unbiased coverage of Markets and Economy.

Slamming the inaction of the officials and government until now, JAC member J T Rama Rao alleged, "Neither the district administration nor the health ministry has taken any proactive measures to investigate the case and put an end to the menace. Hospitals have turned organ transplantation into a business." ET NOW turns 5. Watch No1 Biz News Channel of India for unbiased coverage of Markets and Economy.

Staging a protest near the Telugu Talli Statue at Maddilapalem on Sunday, the JAC also called for a bandh on June 28 to pressurize the government to take action against those involved in the racket. ET NOW turns 5. Watch No1 Biz News Channel of India for unbiased coverage of Markets and Economy.

The Uttarandhra Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) has demanded a high-level judicial inquiry into the kidney racket that came to light in the city recently after the arrest of the medical director of Seven Hills hospital by the Odisha police. ET NOW turns 5. Watch No1 Biz News Channel of India for unbiased coverage of Markets and Economy.

One of the main accused in the Cuttack Kidney sale racket, N Prabhakar, was nabbed by the Orissa police in Visakhapatnam on Monday. The accused was identified as one of the directors of the corporate hospital Seven Hills in Visakhapatnam.

A senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur has alleged that members of a kidney racket are using social networking site Facebook to lure people to sell their vital organs. Thakur who is posted as the Inspector General of Police (Civil Defence), has filed a complaint with the local police, alleging that a gang is contacting Facebook users to purchase kidney.

A free kidney screening camp was conducted at Care Hospital, Ramnagar, on the occasion of World Kidney Day where 230 patients were screened. Dr.K.Kalyan Chakravarthy, consultant nephrologist and his team conducted the camp. The aim of the camp was to promote awareness about early screening among public and thus control chronic kidney diseases.

Vijayganga specialty clinic and Chennai Exnora will organise a kidney awareness programme on world kidney day on March 13 from 11 am to 4 pm at its clinic at 16/32 Bhimasena Gardens, Mylapore. Contact for registration: 04424996685, 7299078999

In a bid to create awareness on the need to protect and preserve the vital human organ kidney, We Care, a charitable institution in the city jointly with GoGreenGoCycling will organise a "cyclothon" on March 9 from Kashmir Bhavan in NAL Layout, Jayanagar on March 9 at 7 am.